Word: panic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That night votes were counted. Once the lights mysteriously went out; at another moment, an official collapsed in an epileptic seizure, almost starting a panic. In the end, the government's Soto won, making his quotient, while Urrutia fell short by 22. That should have settled the majority, but it did not. Reason: just before election day, another pro-government Deputy had been killed in an airline crash. The score is still 73 to 73. and the buy-election routine will probably have to be repeated in Copiapo...
Cagily, Dr. Carter let the news out in a thin trickle so that Singer workers in particular, and South Bend's citizens in general, did not panic. He arranged to pipe city water to the Singer plant. This week every man jack among its woodworkers began submitting stool specimens for laboratory analysis: as many as 9,000 may be needed over a period of six months. Only then will it be known which workers are clear of amoebae. For the estimated 700 who will get positive reports, there will be immediate free treatment with fumagillin or terramycin. At full...
...chatter of the burp guns could not be heard. But as babies wailed and the women took worried counsel of each other, they sensed trouble. Soon they smelled it, then saw it. The Nazis had set torches to the village. Smoke seeped through cracks in the schoolhouse floor. In panic, the women crashed at the bolted door. It would not give. But their screaming and beating was too much for the lone soldier guarding the door. Moved by pity, he pulled the bolt, and the village women rushed out. Before them, with a machine gun in firing position, were three...
...annoying and we resent it ... We have found that some white families are still under the mistaken impression that a community or block must remain all white or 'go all colored' [and] that property values decline when colored families move in ... Values do not decline except during panic selling...
...having seen his wife and two children killed in a Nazi concentration camp, comes to Israel in 1949 as a D.P. His unreasoned fear of authority leads him to strike a policeman who asks for his identification papers. Thinking he has killed the policeman, he runs away in a panic. His journey takes him from Haifa to the Syrian border, where he finally finds physical and emotional haven on a kibbutz (collective farm...